Short answer is '*yes it takes care of things just fine*'... Loosely related - I recently updated my repo containing a script to set up v5 weewx/nginx with rtldavis (link) <https://github.com/vinceskahan/weewx-rtldavis> if anybody is having issues following Luc's ancient documentation for his driver. The issue if you follow Luc's old docs as written these days is that the go language folks induced breaking changes in golang-1.16 and later. Simply specifying an older version of golang does the trick in preventing getting bitten by that upstream breaking change.
(I noticed this workaround buried in an attachment in an old thread (link) <https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/bGiQPuOljqs/m/Mrvwe50UCQAJ> from last year from another user here....) Some disclaimers on my script linked above: - it assumes you are on a pi running as user 'pi' - it only supports v5 pip installations of weewx - and I have 'no' plans be able to handle dpkg installs, running as other users, docker, whatever. - (but it should be a good starting point for how to install librtlsdr and rtldavis nowadays) On Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 8:05:22 AM UTC-7 bgra...@umw.edu wrote: > Vince, > According to Davis for the Vantage Pro 2: > Operates on frequency-hopping spread spectrum of 902 to 928 MHz. Vantage > Pro units operated at 916.5 MHz > > *Does the rtldavis take care of this? Is it able to scan for spread > spectrum data? I don’t know a lot about this.* > *Thanks.* > > *Bob* > On Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 3:09:10 PM UTC-4 vince wrote: > >> Sorry - late reply. I don't understand the frequency hopping question. >> The rtldavis just kinda works and hears the ISS just fine. I didn't do an >> exhaustive test but I did run it for a couple three days and it was nice >> and stable here. >> >> On Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 6:56:07 AM UTC-7 bgra...@umw.edu wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> I need some help setting up a VantagePro2 with this. Vince’s How To was >>> helpful but doesn’t address the VP2 and its frequency hopping. Could >>> someone running a successful setup post details? I’m running Bookworm on an >>> RPI5. Thanks in advance. >>> Bob >>> >>> On Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3:12:55 AM UTC-4 mihec wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I need help setting up the rtldavis as well. Currently I'm using >>>> Ubuntu22.04 (as a test polygon) and latest weewx version (5.0x). I did >>>> follow up instructions from the github link but got stuck at step 4) where >>>> I should reconfigure the driver. The new "weectl" binary does not seem to >>>> have this option but I was assuming it might do it with "weectl extension >>>> install" already? >>>> The next issue is with the build. I don't understand 5b): Since I am >>>> supposed to "cd" into a directory, it should have already exist. But when >>>> was the "$GOPATH/src/github.com/lheijst/rtldavis" created? >>>> I managed to compile some code (honestly don't know how :-) ), I have a >>>> rtldavis binary which seems to recognize my Realtek RTLSDR dongle. I then >>>> try step 7) but it fails with >>>> File "/etc/weewx/bin/user/rtldavis.py", line 93, in <module> >>>> import weewx.drivers >>>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'weewx' >>>> >>>> Can you please help with this? >>>> Thank you. >>>> torek, 23. avgust 2022 ob 05:56:50 UTC+2 je oseba storm...@gmail.com >>>> napisala: >>>> >>>>> Take a look here: >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/lheijst/weewx-rtldavis >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 11:42:38 PM UTC-4 f4n...@gmail.com >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, does anyone have the installation files for rtldavis? It seems to >>>>>> be archived (https://github.com/bemasher/rtldavis) and not longer >>>>>> available in the repository if I try to install it with golang. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is anyone having long term experience and still running it? How >>>>>> stable is the signal with a R820T/T2 chip? Does it get every 2.5s wind >>>>>> packet? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for any advice, >>>>>> fankyy >>>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2505d1fe-4ea0-4cae-9730-159e1c907ab7n%40googlegroups.com.
